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Work routinization and implications for ergonomic exposure assessment

Article Abstract:

A scheme is presented for classifying levels of routinization to inform development of an appropriate exposure assessment strategy for a given occupational setting. The findings recommend a work sampling approach to job analysis as the most efficient way to obtain a comparable unbiased exposure estimate across all routinization levels.

Previous history of LBP with work loss is related to lingering deficits in biomechanical, physiological, personal, psychosocial and motor control

Article Abstract:

Numerous psychosocial, personal, and biomechanical variables were studied for there association with a history of low back troubles sufficient to miss work. A cross-sectional retrospective study was also made for the workers who perform physically demanding jobs.